Sat., July 26 at Sunset: Movie in the Park ft. The Avengers! Ice Cream & Lemonade On-Site.
Painted Prairie was the top award winner in three categories at the 2024 PCBC Gold Nugget awards ceremony, taking home Grand Awards for Masterplan Community of the Year, Best Landscape Architecture, Best Community Land Plan, and an Award of Merit for Best-On-The-Boards Site Plan for the future Town Center development.
What makes this neighborhood award-winning? Thoughtfully designed parks and trails, several world-class builders crafting distinctive homes, and a strong sense of community. It’s where urban energy meets suburban ease, offering both connection and convenience to homeowners of all shapes and sizes.
The Gold Nugget Awards are the nation’s oldest and most prestigious awards for residential design. Since 1963, the awards represent the best of the best in innovative architecture, planning, and construction.
Painted Prairie is honored to have been named a three-time Community of the Year, a testament to our excellence and attractiveness to homebuyers.
These top honors reflect the thoughtful design and unique lifestyle that Painted Prairie offers its residents.
These awards celebrate what our homeowners already know: Painted Prairie isn’t just a neighborhood, it’s a lifestyle.
“This is a significant achievement for a community to win the Gold Nugget Grand Award for Masterplan Community of the Year and be past Community of the Year winners at the local and national level,” said Lisa Parrish, Judging Chairperson, and Competition Manager for the Gold Nugget Awards. “With this win, Painted Prairie is an international winner – which is extremely rare and above and beyond the norm for a community in our industry to win Community of the Year three times in three different competitions.”
Painted Prairie was brought to life by the same visionary planning team, Civitas and Calthorpe & Associates, that reimagined Denver’s former Stapleton Airport into today’s celebrated Central Park neighborhood. Backed by longtime Denver developers Alberta Development Partners and Resolute Strategies, the team behind Painted Prairie shares a proven track record of building award-winning communities that blend thoughtful design with long-term impact.
Chris Fellows, community development partner at Painted Prairie and President of Resolute Strategies, shared how the nationally recognized neighborhood was thoughtfully designed to become one of the most celebrated master-planned communities in the Denver metro area.
“When we sat down with Mark Johnson at Civitas and Peter Calthorpe to create the vision for Painted Prairie, we didn’t do it so we could win awards – we set out to design a great place for people to live and create a home they could be proud of.”
This people-first approach laid the foundation for our community, rooted in innovation, connection, and long-term livability.
“Since then, we’ve received Community of the Year honors from three different sets of judges…that speaks volumes to the dedication of our partners who have worked so hard to make dreams come true for our residents and push the boundaries of what is possible for the city of Aurora.”
We’re the only other Colorado community designed by the same creative planning team, Civitas and Calthorpe & Associates, who successfully transformed Stapleton Airport into a world-renowned, successful urban redevelopment now known as Central Park.
Their legacy of thoughtful design and community-first planning continues at Painted Prairie, where award-winning purposeful design meets everyday livability.
